tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81947040286943070192024-03-14T06:10:02.929-07:00Reviving VintageBreathing new life into forgotten decades.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8194704028694307019.post-62522715728239208172012-04-26T21:44:00.002-07:002012-04-26T21:44:59.975-07:00Recipe: sweet potato fries<div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I remember these mystical summer evenings from my childhood in the Pacific Northwest when the air was heavy and the sun hid behind the silhouetted evergreen trees, not quite ready to say goodbye to the day. Memories tinted with the sound of crickets, playing outdoors with my siblings and our dogs until it was too dark to see where the volleyball went, and a favorite snack when we finally went in at day's end...</span><div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This snack, sadly, was not usually sweet potato fries. In fact, in one instance it was an entire gallon of rainbow sherbet ice cream previously thawed and refrozen - the result of lost power at some time or other. Ah, such happy memories, sugar-high and brain-frozen in the midnight hours.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But I digress. Lately, I have returned to my home climate and was surprised that a summer night detached itself from July to visit us in late April, so I just had to celebrate. Our penchant for wine on long, lingering summer eves (indeed, on many evenings of the year) necessitated a wine run, during which I decided to make something to accompany our favored beverage. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">One finds it very difficult to decide between sweet and salty when one is anticipating mystery wine. But I found I didn't have to choose - sweet potatoes can be both! Here is my adjusted recipe (originally from <a href="http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/oven_baked_sweet_potato_fries/" target="_blank">here</a>), and I encourage you to try this easy dish when premature summer nights entice you to make an evening snack.</span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2 tsp. salt</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2 tsp. sugar</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 tsp. cinnamon</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1/2 tsp. paprika</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If you really think these are wonderful, try making poutine out of them. I have yet to do this, but I have heard it is most fabulous. I did find a recipe <a href="http://www.closetcooking.com/2009/01/sweet-potato-poutine.html" target="_blank">here</a> that I plan to try sometime soon.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Marjorie</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8194704028694307019.post-81478796914473041682012-04-15T19:59:00.002-07:002012-04-15T20:02:55.021-07:00Titanic Tea: centennial commemorationThe Titanic Tea at the <a href="http://thegranthouse.us/" target="_blank">Grant House</a> on Officer's Row was a delightful affair, full of glamorous hats and duds, and even more glamorous people!<br />
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Caley and I got a chance to meet Julie (<a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/FabGabs" target="_blank">Fab Gabs</a>) and Rhiannon (<a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/GarbOhVintage" target="_blank">Garb-oh Vintage</a>) - two ladies with impeccable taste and even more impeccable. It was also a delight to fraternize with new friends and kindred spirits Janey (<a href="http://atomicredhead.com/" target="_blank">Atomic Redhead</a>) and Solanah (<a href="http://vixenvintage.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Vixen Vintage</a>)!<br />
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After tea and photography in the garden around the Grant House, we walked along Officer's Row, eye candy for the favorable passersby. And sad as it is to recognize the loss of so many lives in the Atlantic that night a hundred years ago, we could not help but celebrate their memory with fancy ensembles and warm smiles, as the day greeted us so amiably. What wonders blue sky and sunshine can do!<br />
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~ all thrifted, with help from several friends ~</div>
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~ the lovely Caley in her totally-thrifted Edwardian tea ensemble ~</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline;">~ one event photog to another! ~</span></div>
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~ we even had a dapper man in real Edwardian tails! ~</div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8194704028694307019.post-85015559445671767662012-04-15T19:48:00.003-07:002012-04-15T19:49:50.850-07:00Dress-ups: vintage nightgownsYesterday brought adventure after adventure for my friend Caley and me as we traveled to Portland and back for Solanah's Titanic Tea event at <a href="http://thegranthouse.us/" target="_blank">the Grant House</a> on Officer's Row. From getting stranded in downtown Portland at dusk (by the Max, no less!) to running out of gas a mile short of our destination, the weekend has been satisfyingly memorable.<br />
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We arrived Friday night after an exhausting drive with a few wrong turns, and soon slipped into our vintage nightgowns to relax. Our thoughtful hosts served us tea on a tray and we watched <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pan_(2003_film)" target="_blank">Peter Pan</a> until the early hours of the morning. After a lazy breakfast and sunshine and more tea, we rolled up our hair and took advantage of the romantic atmosphere of the house before preparing for our Titanic event.<br />
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I always think this is the stuff of fairy tales, and as I frequently tell my dear mother-in-law, no, I will never grow up. I will always be the right age for playing dress-up and learning useful skills like embroidering. There is simply nothing like falling asleep in something pretty and feminine - except, perhaps, waking up in it.<br />
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Some local teens also offered us a stunning fashion show of Victorian-style ensembles as we enjoyed our tea and cakes throughout the afternoon.<br />
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I look forward to more such tea and assorted apparel at the tomorrow's Titanic Tea at the <a href="http://thegranthouse.us/" target="_blank">Grant House</a> with <a href="http://vixenvintage.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Solanah</a> &c. Check back for more photos soon!<br />
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Such a delightful spread - cucumber sandwiches and delicious sorbets!</div>
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A beautiful steamer trunk full of fancy goodies!</div>
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Oh, to have a nook like this for my piano!</div>
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By far the most beautiful hat I have ever laid eyes on!</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Having recently acquired a magnificent sewing machine, I've been anxiously toying with ideas about what to create as my first piece. I have great costume patterns, but I must admit I don't have the experience to succeed or the courage to fail as I just begin to use this beautiful machine (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">named Agnes, for reasons unknown).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After two weeks (I know!) of bumbling around with no patterns or material, I figured maybe I could make up my own. So off I went to the thrift store and came home with some patterned scraps left over from someone else's probably-way-more-fabulous project. I folded some printer paper, cut out what later turned out to look like lips, and sewed it all together with extraordinary cleverness. I have yet to devise a plan for creating fabric flowers, but never mind. One success at a time.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Today I have recreated this masterpiece in a similar pattern step by step to show you. Because anyone with fabric and a needle and thread is clearly in want of a decorative centerpiece on which to exhibit flowers and a natural sewing talent. (You don't actually need natural sewing talent, but a sewing machine helps to fool people.) The great thing about this project is that you can do it with or without a sewing machine, and with or without great amounts of sewing experience.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">15" x 24" sheet of fabric (or two 12" x 15" sheets)*</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Look for my next post on embroidering this piece soon. We'll give definition and personality to this decorative centerpiece. </span><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8194704028694307019.post-16228699691140653842012-03-14T16:52:00.000-07:002012-03-14T16:54:49.752-07:00Victory! ...rollsThis week I've had my dear friend Joyous to visit from Toronto, Canada. We tromped around every single antique store in the area, including one that isn't listed... because it's somebody's barn. We found lots of little treasures!
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Joyous found a beaded coin purse, a sweet apron, a teacup and saucer, and several sets of cameo stud earrings. I had my eye on bigger quarry (as I do not have to lug it back to the north country) and came home with a lamp-slash-endtable, a teak letter-and-key holder, a small wooden recipe box, an <a href="http://www.revivingvintage.com/2012/03/im-little-teapot.html" target="_blank">embroidered table runner</a> and a fabulous Pendleton Knockabouts jacket, complete with leather-patch elbows!<br />
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This week has been no less than victorious, not only in great vintage finds in our small town, but also in more hair experiments! First we thought we'd do pin curls for a mandolin concert this week, but time flew by and left us with too few hours to put it together. Instead - Victory Rolls!
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As you can see, we made the most of it. We both have very straight hair, which I thought would prove more challenging than it actually did. Joy has lots of hair that's very fine, and I have thick hair but not as much of it. Soon I hope to post a video tutorial of how to do this particular hairstyle, but until then, here's what we did:
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<li>If you start with wet hair, throw in some mousse and blow dry. If you start with dry hair, hairspray the heck out of it and then brush it.</li>
<li>Take two vertical sections of hair from each side of your head and throw the rest in a ponytail.</li>
<li>Backcomb each of the four sections on the back side, using hairspray as necessary (we used quite a lot).</li>
<li>Use a 1"-barrel curling iron to curl one section towards the back. When it's sufficiently curled, use your hands to roll the section away from your face into the long rolls you see in our pictures.</li>
<li>Use two bobby pins to secure the roll at the top and the bottom. You can play with the roll to make it looser or tighter, depending on how much volume you want.</li>
<li>Do this for each of the four sections, pulling your bangs aside if you have them.</li>
<li>For those with said fringe, hold them straight up from your head, spray them, and curl them in a large curl towards the front. Leave it to cool, then backcomb the back side and roll them into a standing pin curl off to one side. Secure with a bobby pin.</li>
<li>Undo the ponytail you put up earlier. Curl the hair in sections - use hairspray to make sure the ends don't fall out immediately (it's not terribly important that they stay really curly).</li>
<li>Brush the curls and put your hair up in a high ponytail again. Split the hair on the top to make a pocket just above the elastic band, loosening the ponytail, and tuck the hair into it. Leave the last few inches of the ponytail untucked.</li>
<li>Curl the last few inches of the ponytail around the pocket of stuffed hair to hide it, and pin it with a bobby pin.</li>
<li>Spray, spray, spray! We took on wind and rain with this style, and nary a hair was out of place when we returned.</li>
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MarjorieUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8194704028694307019.post-18799296803463435892012-03-12T17:54:00.002-07:002012-03-12T17:56:56.006-07:00I'm a little teapot<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have been looking for the perfect teapot for years. <i>Years.</i> And just a few months ago, I found it - well, her. She was sitting on a corner table at the back of a newly-discovered antique store, and she commanded my full attention.</span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It's difficult to say what is so special about this perfect little teapot. Perhaps I just know deep down that if I were a teapot, I would be <i>this</i> little teapot. Maybe I saw her in a dream, or met one of her matching cups and saucers at an antique shop in my past. One thing I do know is that she spoke to me, and one should always buy, if one is able, the items that speak to one's soul.</span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This little teapot is named Angela for a cat-loving friend of mine who, when I think of her, always makes me want to curl up with my kitty and a cup of tea. My teapot does much the same thing, and it doesn't hurt that she has quite recently been clothed with a tea cozy of delicate design and delightful colors, making her all the more inviting. Many thanks to my wonderful Oma for the gift!
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Another recent acquisition was this fanciful embroidered table runner, found for a few cents at an estate sale. <a href="http://www.oaktreeapothecary.com/Oak_Tree/Birdie.html" target="_blank">Birdie</a> and I have decided she needs a bosom, so I think I will attempt something innocently come-hitherish using my library embroidery books soon. I love her shoes, and I can only dream of bloomers with flounces like that!</span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Solanah, I was pleased to find, is wonderfully approachable and thrillingly knowledgeable when it comes to vintage clothing. I learned so much from her as we cavorted in heels for hours through the Expo, and was delighted to find a friend as well as a kindred spirit. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We met quite a few people who also embodied the vintage spirit with fantastic vintagewear and hattery, including Janey of <a href="http://atomicredhead.com/" target="_blank">Atomic Redhead</a>. My favorite, I must admit, was the muscle-bound, mustachioed man in the striped shirt! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Large or small, this collar is unique and distinguishable by its rounded (rather than pointed) edges. I think of Peter Pan when I see this collar, but also of English nannies in the first half of the 20th century. And brooches. They look very nice with brooches, if you're going for that high-necked collar look.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A summery look brought into style largely by Marilyn Monroe, this neckline is timeless and classic, and always alluring. Halters are sometimes backless, and sometimes high-necked with a cross-hatched back. This chic look was popular for dresses - formal and informal - and mostly it was worn with a jacket.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I like it because it drapes, but not in the way a "draping neckline" drapes. It is like a shawl, and provides emphasis for the face and neck because it simplifies the shoulders. I particularly like this one by Doris Dodson - it is elegant and emphasizes the waist well. The pattern to the left is also lovely because it again frames the neck and takes emphasis away from the shoulders.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sidenote: I love the dress in this picture not just for the neckline but also for the dropped waist. The hourglass shape is quite defined, but the waistline of the dress falls at the hips. *sigh* What I wouldn't do for a dress like this!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I always think this style is more provocative than strapless (but then, I think strapless tops of any kind are boring and a waste of <i>worlds</i> of creativity).</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Perhaps the only strapless gowns I like are those seen in White Christmas, and that's probably because of the chiffon, not the cut. They were seen on rompers as well as gowns, as you can see. Strapless tops of any kind were very different than what we have today. First of all, there was this wonderful thing called boning that created the shape and kept it that way.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">These three have never been favorites with me, but with the ever-present hourglass shape in the 1950s, they were good simple options. Emphasis is a curious thing, and I think with these three necklines the hourglass was made more poignant because there wasn't a lot of excitement going on at the neck, so one paid more attention to a slender waist. Sometimes blouses like these weren't even darted or tailored - one had to rely on a belt to tuck it all together.</span><br />
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A simple neckline full of possibilities, as you can see from these patterns. I love when blouses with this neckline are edged in lace or ribbon.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I also prefer this for gowns (tea- or floor-length) because it accentuates one's hourglass shape, widening the shoulder slightly to counterbalance the waist. This is a great option if you have an athletic build because it gives the impression of more sloping (rather than square) shoulders.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Though this neckline has the potential to be really boring, I often like it because it allows you to focus on your accessories. I have several blouses with lace collars that make for a nice background for a brooch or string of beads. Accessories such as those are more difficult with the other necklines outlined here. And as you can see from the pictures, they don't have to be as boring as that at all. Some are quite creatively done.</span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I hope you enjoyed this expostulation of 1950s collars and necklines! I encourage you to add to your wardrobe with this element in mind, and as always, enjoy the process. Finding vintage garments can be a challenging task, especially for those of us not a size 0, and makes every piece a treasure. Tune in again for another style elemental soon!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8194704028694307019.post-85274995292585379592012-01-27T14:36:00.000-08:002012-01-28T14:03:05.705-08:00gnocchi gnight!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have moved up in the world. Not that you would know it, because I just deleted a beautiful post I was just about to offer you. Again.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In other news, I have advanced to wearing very nice blouses (which now inevitably smell of delicious food) whilst cooking tasty meals for two. And also wearing very vintage-looking apron given to me by my sweet sister Hyacinth, who finds me love of vintage housewifery amusing. (Fortunately her good taste helps me overlook the fact - thank you, dahling, for the Hollywood-red lipstick!)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This meal was phenomenal, though I must say that gnocchi-making is a long-preparation affair indeed, and rather labor-intensive. I encourage you to try it, though - it's delightful food, and can be frozen for future use. I plan to make it in huge batches in future. Hello, fifteen pounds of potatoes at a time!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I used this recipe (lemon-thyme sauce <i>highly</i> recommended!): <a href="http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/potato-gnocchi-with-lemon-thyme-sauce-10000001973727/" target="_blank">Potato Gnocchi with Lemon-Thyme Sauce</a>. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And this recipe(s) offered some great insight and optional techniques: <a href="http://www.readymade.com/blog/readymade/2010/02/12/how-to-make-gnocchi-italian-dumplings-two-ways-with-two-sauces" target="_blank">Italian dumplings with two sauces</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">While I would love to make this an exhaustive list of what to wear and how to wear it, we'll save that for the post on accessories. Today's fun entails the art of blouses, and elements such as wraps, cardigans, and jackets.</span><br />
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Blouses</h3>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I won't discuss all the styles for sleeves, necklines, or collars in this post, but I wanted to give you a smattering of different types of blouses worn with pencil skirts, circle skirts, and pants of all kinds. There are so many to choose from! I will say that sleeveless and capped-sleeve blouses were common, especially for young women. My opinion is that they were favored because they left lots of opportunity to mix and match jackets and sweaters, and because they made it easy to add or remove a layer when going out.</span><br />
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Sweater-set (or twin set)</h3>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">School girls commonly wore these with poodle (circle) skirts, in the 1950s and 1960s. Made popular by screen stars such as Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, and Grace Kelly (on and off the screen), this style of clothing usually looks knit (wool, lambswool, or cashmere), but can be made from synthetic fabric.</span><br />
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Bodices</h3>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We'll talk about girdles later, but I have to point out that when you watch all those old movies where the girls' waists are completely slim and impossibly not-bulgy, this is an effect, not a naturally-occuring phenomenon. No matter how hard you try, without a girdle, you are going to bulge. Period, end of story. The point is, most real 1950s blouse bodices were made for a particular shape - made possible only by a girdle. They are fitted supremely, and in my opinion are lovely to look at when watching Mitzi Gaynor, Marilyn Monroe, or Rosemary Clooney movies.</span><br />
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Jackets</h3>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I love jackets these days because they take the pressure off having the perfect figure for whatever I'm wearing. It helps that it's winter, but doesn't help that an outer coat is usually necessary on top of a jacket against the cold... but never mind my personal fashion problems. Jackets are wonderful. They provide (as interesting collars do) an opportunity for creativity with any outfit.</span></span><br />
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Cropped</h4>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">These short jackets change the silhouette, often making one's waist look as wide as one's hips. I like them, however, because they are usually short enough to emphasize the curvature of one's lower half and hint at the slimness of the waist above. </span></span><br />
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Fitted</h4>
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<style="font-family: 'times="" georgia,="" new="" roman',="" serif;"=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The antithesis of this kind of jacket might be the loathsome anoraks people wore in the 1980s to evidently hide everything worth looking at and make women look like they have shoulders the height of the Sears Tower. Ick. You can find a picture of one <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dirtygirlvintage/2884886474/" target="_blank">here</a>, but be warned: they are ugly enough to melt your eyeballs. A pox on anyone who tries to bring them back into fashion!</span><br />
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Bolero</h4>
<style="font-family: 'times="" georgia,="" new="" roman',="" serif;"=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This wonderful style shows off more of the blouse and waistline than the other two jacket types, and is the most creative of all, as you can see from the picture. Some were made to match the skirts or dresses they outfitted, and some could be worn with other pieces. These days, they very often hang loosely so it's difficult to wear them with long sleeves. When shopping vintage, keep your eyes peeled for these short-sleeved, super-cropped jackets as a wonderful accessory to otherwise-mismatched outfits.</span>
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Wraps, Shawls, Capes, and other draperies</h3>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This lovely pseudo-accessory offers plenty of room for creativity in one's outfit. I'm only just discovering them with my own wardrobe, but there are a lot of examples out there with which to swathe yourself. I've included just a few, with more of my own examples to come.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the next post I'll discuss collars and necklines on blouses and gowns of all kinds. There's such a wide range, I couldn't include them in this post. Check back soon for the next installment of "The elements of style"!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Also, many thanks to Jessica of <a href="http://www.myvintagevogue.com/">myvintagevogue.com</a> for providing the bulk of the pictures for this post!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8194704028694307019.post-80290129718049667502012-01-06T18:19:00.000-08:002012-01-07T11:48:36.809-08:00A new thread<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For those of us still en route to a home and lifestyle reminiscent of a prior century, there are many ways to thread old-fashioned ideals into everyday life. Some take the work away from the machines and put it back into our own hands, some require learning a new skill (or seven), and some are just practicing looking at the world differently.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From what I've seen of the people who really <i>own</i> the vintage lifestyle, they <i>are</i> the picture we want to see. They dress the part, they simplify their tools, and they spend their time and energy doing things technology could do faster and probably better - but less humanly. Life is about living, and I for one do not want to spend it staring into the screen of a smartphone.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Here I have compiled a list of behaviors - threads - of the life I choose to live this year.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/prosto/409231836/" title="Don't hang up there by prosto photos, on Flickr"><img alt="Don't hang up there" height="240" src="http://farm1.staticflickr.com/157/409231836_f58ad9de78_m.jpg" width="160" /></a></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">They are for talking and texting, yes, but not at the expense of living in the moment and being with the people who are with you. The person doesn't have to be there - he or she chooses to be.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The next time you're stopped at a traffic light watching cars go by, count how many people are on their cell phones. Or if you're in a crowded street, take a look at the pedestrians and count how many are texting or talking on the phone, obviously not mentally present in their environment. This is not the way I want to live. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This year, I choose not to make a text or call more important than the experience or person in my presence. Remember when telephones were only in your kitchen? Let's pretend that's where they were meant to be.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/muohio_digital_collections/3092916255/" title="Domestic Sewing Machine Co. by Miami U. Libraries - Digital Collections, on Flickr"><img alt="Domestic Sewing Machine Co." height="240" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3230/3092916255_17fc0cf65d_m.jpg" width="143" /></a></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There always seems to be a pile somewhere, inevitable as laundry and dishes. This year I choose to make sewing a priority; a) because it's rather fun, b) because I don't like looking at the pile of clothes I wish I could wear, and c) because it requires that I slow down and live in the moment, stitch by stitch. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If you want to start sewing or mending your own clothes, here are some resources with tips and stitch types you can try as a beginner:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/http;//www.janegrey.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Stitch-for-Sewing-and-Mending" target="blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">janegrey.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Stitch-for-Sewing-and-Mending</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.coletterie.com/tutorials-tips-tricks/building-your-sewing-vocabulary" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">www.coletterie.com/tutorials-tips-tricks</span></a><br />
<a href="http://diyfashion.about.com/od/mendingandalterations/tp/Repair_and_Mend_Clothing.htm" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">diyfashion.about.com/od/mendingandalterations</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.makeitandmendit.com/2011/02/03/easy-sewing-projects-for-beginners/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">www.makeitandmendit.com</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I also found a blog dedicated to sewing vintage at <a href="http://makingitvintage.blogspot.com/2011/08/make-do-and-mend-sewing-tin.html" target="_blank">makingitvintage.blogspot.com</a>. Lots of great ideas here!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I recently became aware of some serious health issues regarding store-bought canned tomatoes. I love using canned tomatoes in my cooking, so I am going to have to remedy this by canning my own. Time for some tomato plants in my garden! In any case, lots of delicious foods can be canned and I intend to experiment with them this year. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If you want to start canning, here are some good resources for learning:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.pickyourown.org/allaboutcanning.htm" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">www.pickyourown.org</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.freshpreserving.com/getting-started.aspx" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">www.freshpreserving.com</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Canning-New-Generation-Flavors-Modern/dp/1584798645/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325882458&sr=8-1" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">www.amazon.com/Canning-New-Generation-Flavors-Modern</span></a><br />
<a href="http://busterbucks.hubpages.com/hub/How-To-Can-Tomatoes" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">busterbucks.hubpages.com/hub/How-To-Can-Tomatoes</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Big travel plans this year have thwarted my spontaneous spending habit, so now frugal's the word! I love to shop, especially vintage. This spring it will mean a lot of window shopping and digging around for the rarity of inexpensive finds.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I also want to change my attitude towards shopping to something rather foreign - spending within my means. Whatever I buy, I have planned for. While credit itself has been around for more or less ever, credit cards are new and honestly of the devil. I refuse to be another of this country's horrendous statistics of people who spend money they don't have.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Also, it's time to get creative with gifts and household items! I've found a few websites that will allow me to maintain my zeal for change and excitement while keeping a respectful distance from my pocketbook:</span><br />
<a href="http://iheartorganizing.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://iheartorganizing.blogspot.com</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.squidoo.com/reuse-everything" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://www.squidoo.com/reuse-everything</span></a><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://moneysavingfrugaltips.com/" target="_blank">http://moneysavingfrugaltips.com</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">By the way, I hate it when I write a fabulous and sardonic section on how cooking will change my life this year, and then refresh the page without saving only to lose it all. Life hates me.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So I have this theory about the impossibly-tiny people who lived in this country half a century ago. Actually, two theories. One is that they were malnourished because the food they ate was limited by - well, a lot of things. The other is that they ate just fine, it's just that we are now enormous human beings because we eat just as much hormone as we do nutrient anymore. So this year, I resolve to go back to basics. We're talking fresh fruits and vegetables instead of canned and processed ones (unless homemade, of course), whole grains (such as my newly-beloved quinoa) instead of the useless sifted grain-product known to the wise as "empty calories" but otherwise known as "white flour," and lean meats--and less of them.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I've already begun to adjust my pantry to more organic and non-hormone-imbibed animal products and I have one thing to say: people should not be drinking milk produced by cows on steroids. I have very good reasons for saying this, but they stray too far from my vintage theme to be discussed here. The point is, that lovely lady I discussed in <a href="http://www.revivingvintage.com/2011/10/living-doll.html" target="_blank">The living doll</a>? She did not serve her family food on drugs, and therefore I refuse to, as much as possible. Her downfall was most likely Crisco, which, I am convinced, was the beginning of America's food problems.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ok, enough about drugs. I have some recipes to share that our kitchen-bound women of the 1950s can only wish they'd known about. Here are some I have either tried and love or will try this year:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://blogs.babble.com/family-kitchen/2010/11/09/gluten-free-chocolate-quinoa-cake/" target="_blank">Quinoa chocolate cake</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/baked-kale-chips/detail.aspx" target="_blank">Baked kale chips</a> (I like them with garlic and salt)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://allrecipes.com/recipe/quinoa-chili/detail.aspx" target="_blank">Quinoa chili</a> (double the quinoa to make it last longer)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/zucchini-with-quinoa-stuffing-10000001834016/" target="_blank">Zucchini with quinoa stuffing</a> (my favorite quinoa recipe to date)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/stuffed-eggplant-10000000224607/" target="_blank">Stuffed eggplant</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.browneyedbaker.com/2009/07/01/roasted-shrimp-and-orzo/" target="_blank">Rosted shrimp and orzo</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Sesame-Soba-Noodle-and-Vegetable-Salad-643" target="_blank">Sesame soba noodle and veggie salad</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Okay, so work on the novel last year was short-lived. For something so long in coming, I'm disappointed that I didn't make more progress when I said I would. This year, I am determined. The fact that finishing it has been on my list of new year's goals for the last seven years is irrelevant. Also: more letters. Someday I might even write them in calligraphy. Journaling is also an important and satisfying re-addition to my life. In keeping with the vintage theme, I have a journal made from an old copy of <a href="http://www.shortpoems.org/emily_dickinson/index.html" target="_blank">Emily Dickinson</a>'s poems.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I always love the pictures of girl scouts from the '50s on hikes in the mountains. Exercise is not my favorite thing, but pictures like that inspire me and make me want to go do it. They did it without the help of spandex and breathable socks, so I have nothing to complain about. My only question is, when did they start selling cookies? And then how did they manage to keep their girlish figures after that?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Speaking of girlish figures, I also want to take more walks and enjoy the day because I'm convinced Americans drive too much. I blame the beautiful <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/electrospark/4784350964/" target="_blank">1950s Cadillacs</a> for making us want to drive everywhere instead of walk. Doubtless I would have a different opinion if I owned one myself, but in the meantime, this year is about diligence and discipline, and maybe even some tennis... but only because the outfits used to be fabulous.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">While I'd love to say I plan to read nothing but fashion history this year, I must be honest and admit my interests are more variable than that. I have some great Victorian history books (especially about the shift to home life) I'd like to read, and I may yet find my way to a Sears Roebuck catalogue. And perhaps I'll add a dash of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mans-Search-Meaning-Viktor-Frankl/dp/0807014273/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325913377&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Viktor Frankl</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/1439199191/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325913442&sr=1-2" target="_blank">Dale Carnegie</a> for good measure.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I love watching Jane Austen movies where you see these middle-class young women singing and playing the pianoforte at social gatherings. What's happened to the world? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Anyway, obviously real life in this century is not like that, no matter how much we make believe. However, inasmuch as my ingenuity allows, I resolve to a) participate in more social gatherings, and b) start practicing the piano and singing more often to be prepared in case we fall back into the 19th century. Community choir, don't start without me!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8194704028694307019.post-78271481377879806412011-12-19T15:22:00.000-08:002011-12-28T12:32:17.279-08:00Flashbacks<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I've been very good the last two months about getting pictures taken in the most fabulous vintage outfits I've come up with from small acquisitions here and there. Posting them? Not so diligent on that front. So now here they are, from hats to hose, if not in my own collection, then what I envision in the near future.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A couple of months ago, my dear friend Birdie of <a href="http://www.oaktreeapothecary.com/" target="blank">Oak Tree Apothecary</a> and I spent several days creating and canning homemade chili together. I was quite proud of my concoction - a delicious ensemble of beans, corn, ground beef, tomato puree, hominy, spices, and several secret ingredients. </span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Canning is a lovely sport made easier by friends with more knowledge than oneself. It makes large quantities of food last longer, and if said food is especially tasty, it's a way of inviting back the memory of a great day of cooking and canning and watching Poirot in the meantime.</span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sidenote: Okay, is anyone else who read Atlas Shrugged annoyed that they set the movie in the modern day? The 1940s is a much better context, not only for its fabulous fashion, but also for its much-more-understandable background of railroads.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Anyway, canning day also happened to be pin-curl day, and I couldn't have my lovely curls falling into the chili, could I? So I wrapped them up into a turban of sorts with a pink scarf. I learned a better way from Solanah at <a href="http://vixenvintage.blogspot.com/2011/09/how-to-tie-easy-turban.html" target="blank">Vixen Vintage</a>, but my scarf has no stretchability, so I satisfied myself with a lounging bow atop my head.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Incidentally, after getting myself used to doing a pin curl set, I've found it requires both diligence and strong arms. It isn't the kind of thing one can just do in five minutes, and for that I both respect the process and fear it. The result is always fabulous - once you've gotten the hang of it - so in my view, always worth doing. Do read what Solanah has to say about pin curls, though, to get a feel for how a regular pin-curler plans the process.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This lovely item is a terror to one's closet (don't even <i>think</i> of storing it in a drawer!) and is the main reason, I am convinced, that women kept their clothes in large trunks at the foot of their beds. Petticoats can be very thin: a single layer of fabric gathered and ruffled to add volume to the skirt shape over top of it. Mostly, though, at least through the 1950s, they were ruffled and layered to the extreme to increase volume to circle skirts, and also to allow enterprising dancers to practice their can-cans with some degree of modesty. For more info, check out this section of <a href="http://fashion-era.com/1950s/1950s_6_stockings_petticoats.htm#Petticoats" target="_blank">Fashion-era.com</a>. Also see <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8194704028694307019#flounce">Flounce</a>, below.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Personally, I prefer the term "dungarees," so I might start a campaign to resurrect it. Back in the day, you couldn't find them made with comfortably-stretchy spandex - they were just denim. Most of us have worn just-denim jeans… and most of us prefer the way that bit of spandex allows them to move with you. They were originally designed for cowboys (and are still worn by them), but became popular with teenagers in the 1950s. You'll likely recognize the original brands - Levi's, Lee, and Wrangler.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I have always idealized the 1950s housewife. Everything she was and did and wore and <i>didn’t</i> do appealed to me since my baby brother was born and I experienced a hint of what it meant to live solely for one’s family. Hey, if the 1950s woman could look cute doing all this hard work and make life lovely for her family, what more could she ask for from a home life?</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The other day I read an illustrated book: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fashions-Decade-1950s-Patricia-Baker/dp/0816024685"><i>Fashions of a Decade: The 1950s</i></a> by Patricia Baker. One of the taglines for it was “The Living Doll.” What could that possibly mean? I quelled my curiosity and read from the beginning, learning quite a lot that I never knew about America’s fear of Communism, the Korean upheaval, and (to my great delight) young men known as “<a href="http://www.fashion-era.com/1950s/1950s_4_teenagers_teddy_boys.htm">Teddy boys</a>.” A spectacular array.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">When I arrived at the “living doll” pages, however, I was immediately reminded of the movie <a href="http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/monalisasmile/"><i>Mona Lisa Smile</i></a>. That movie was the first crack in the art deco vase of my 1950s housewife ideal. If you haven’t seen it, here’s a brief synopsis from my perspective: A teacher goes to a women’s university and learns that although the girls are extremely intelligent and capable, they see college as a quick way to meet a man, get married, and start their happy-housewife life rather than reach their intellectual potential. It’s a brilliant movie, and the costumes, hair, and makeup are very well done.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Back to the point. I didn’t go to college to find a husband, but the rest of the attitudes of the girls in the movie echoed mine very well. But the story expands on a good point: this pretty life that all these young women desire is not as pretty as it seems. Besides the inequality issues between spouses (which has undoubtedly affected people’s attitudes toward marriage ever since), one has only to look at the clothes to see where American women began to believe they had to be something completely impossible.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">According to Baker’s book, the “living doll” appeared in all sorts ads via the new household commodity, the television set, and was amplified by myriad paper ads and catalogues. Her waist was tiny, her curves voluptuous (though always modestly covered), her makeup precise, and her lovely pin curl set pristine and tasteful. She was the epitome of the 1950s housewife.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Now I must be fair: this particular woman, appearing in so many ads and commercials, had every convenience of “modern” life. Her workload was ideally lessened by the conveniences of new home products such as refrigerators, top-loading washing machines, and microwave ovens, to name just a few. So perhaps she did have time to look as she did. But for the average housewife (although admittedly this was the heyday of America’s middle class), this was not real life. There was no way she could be everything the advertisements enjoined her to be.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This has turned into rather a rant than an exposition of the “living doll,” so let’s return to the fashionable point. How many of us would be able to achieve the nipped waist, sloped shoulder, accentuated bust, and emphasized calf and ankle that the housewives of the 1950s were expected to achieve? Perhaps if we really tried, but what about getting the housework done as well--cooking, cleaning, washing, ironing, etc.? It’s a tall order, to say the least. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It comes down to stars in the eyes of the general public. So much new technology was becoming widely available in this decade that life was supposed to be made easier at every turn. This vision could maybe, possibly be what the future looked like.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The truth is, most women were not this idealized version of a housewife, and I can no longer pretend that it is a viable objective for me.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In reality, most women wore a loose dress, or a sweater with comfortable trousers or dungarees to do their housework. The apron with heart-shaped top and amusingly creative pockets may have been good for show, but it wasn’t practical for sopping up messes, shielding one from grease and hot oil, or dusting the furniture (because everybody knows the best way to dust furniture is with one’s apron skirt).</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">At this point, although my idealized self is still canning in the kitchen with a lovely tapered hourglass figure and said apron, I can direct myself toward a more attainable goal. Whatever I do, I will do it fully. When I play housewife, I will make sure my kitchen creations engage my skills and creative capacity. When I play cocktail partier, I’ll be dolled up to the perfection of whatever body I have. When I play writer, I’ll drink coffee like a beatnik broad and get into character.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The “living doll” was an amusing vision. But now that we’ve taken her down a notch, we can rebuild that vision and those of Christian Dior’s A, S, and H lines (among others) as what they are: <i>visions</i>. The new goal: explore the “epitome” of whatever classic persona existed and was embodied by the few, and learn to recreate it whenever we so choose.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">I curled the front-side sections the same direction on purpose: counter-clockwise. This helps when I want them to frame my face after I brush them out.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I’ve spent a significant portion of the last five years carving out my corner in the world. In so doing, I have acquired several items that are expressive of my passion for antiques and vintage living. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Foremostly, hats. All shapes and sizes, and they must be elegant. I have heard that some people are “hat people,” and some people are not. I’m not sure I believe that, because after quite a few hours of research, I’ve discovered there are about as many types of hats as there are countries in the world. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">With that kind of variety, you will most certainly be able to find a hat that suits you even if people tell you (or you tell yourself) that you are not a “hat people.” Hats are a beautiful expression of personality, and with the right hat, everybody is a “hat people.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I love the example of Jacqueline Kennedy. I read in another vintage blog that she had a designated personal stylist, fashion designer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Cassini">Oleg Cassini</a>, who was responsible for dressing her throughout her career as First Lady. She was henceforth a trendsetter, and was the woman to bring to the world the pillbox hat. Thank you to Lisa, writer of the <a href="http://thevintagelibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/03/chill-pillbox.html">Vintage Fashion Librarian</a> blog, for a fashionable history of the fashionable Jackie O.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">There’s no way I could write about every hat known to man, because frankly I’m not that interested in conical Asian hats or baseball caps. I can, however, offer an exposition of the more interesting hat types one finds in antique shops and can easily examine for quality.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Soon I will post my own examples of these hats - as many as I have (and sadly that does not include the well-known <i>top hat</i>) - so you can see how they look.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>Cloche</i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This word is French for “bell,” and the hat looks like its name. Very popular in the 1920s.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">A hat worn on the back of the head and designed to draw attention to the face. Designed by <a href="http://www.vintagedesignerclothing.com/halston.html">Halston</a> for Jackie Kennedy on the occasion of her husband’s inauguration in 1961.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">A brimmed hat made from reeds or straw; one of the oldest hat types in human history. In women’s hat fashion, this hat is often shaped into a bonnet and decorated with ribbons, flowers, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In the context of women’s fashionable hats in the last two centuries, these hats were often sewn to a foundational hat so as to be more easily removed. Most popular in the early 20th century.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Most popular in the 1960s (and worn more by men than women), this hat is one of the more popular hats of today, reminiscent of gangster-style fedoras. The brim is turned up at the back, and the top of the crown is pinched in the front so as to be easily removed. Its name comes from George du Maurier’s novel <i>Trilby</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">An alternative to the Balmoral bonnet, this hat is boat-shaped, and has a toorie (little pom-pom) on the top. It also has ribbons down the back, and a rosette cockade (knot of colored ribbons) on the side. Believe it or not, this hat is traditionally worn by men. In Scotland. That should make it less surprising. Those men also wear skirts.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This is often a trim for another type of hat, being a kind of headband. Sometimes it has a stiff structure, sometimes not.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Originally the name for men’s headgear but now worn primarily by women and children, this hat has a deep brim and most often ribbons to tie it under the chin. Very stylish and with a myriad of variations throughout the Regency and early Victorian eras, bonnets were eventually replaced by veiled hats with less brim in the mid- to late-19th century.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">A cousin of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_o'_Shanter_(cap)">tam o’ shanter</a> of Scotland, this hat is soft, round, and flat-crowned. Usually one thinks of a mustachioed French artist with a palette and paintbrush in his hand, but although this hat was mass-produced first in France and Spain in the 19th century, this hat has been worn since the Bronze Age.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">One doesn’t know where to start--there are so many options when it comes to this headpiece! Typically an accessory of formalwear, fascinators are worn by women only--attached to the head in lieu of a hat. These were popularized in the early 20th century--think 1920s flapper headbands. Before that, they were actually a lacy head covering bedecked with feathers.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This hat is reminiscent of Henry VIII, yes, but is now worn mostly in academic circles (go to a college graduation ceremony sometime and check out the faculty). It’s a soft, round cap with a stiff little brim with a tassel hanging from it. Frankly, it looks much more stylish - although slightly less recognizable - than the standard mortarboard one wears at one’s own graduation ceremony.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Worn, I am told, tilted exactly 10 degrees, this hat ranks among the most recognizable, most noble hats in the history of millinery. Made famous by Lord Ribblesdale in a portrait, there is a popular myth that it was first worn by <a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?Top-Hat---The-History-and-Origin&id=86976">John Hetherington</a>, who was thrown in jail for it. Sadly, that story is not true, as these hats predated the 19th century. Also made famous by Uncle Sam himself, this wonderful hat is tall with a flat crown and is often made of <a href="http://people.ucsc.edu/~kfeinste/beaverhat/Main.html">felted beaver fur</a>. Most excitingly, these hats were made collapsible at one point because they took up too much space in cloakrooms! Read that history <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_hat#History">here</a>.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8194704028694307019.post-29272168331712245732011-08-31T12:00:00.001-07:002011-12-12T16:59:08.472-08:00Pin curls - Attempt #1<div style="color: #212606; font: 14.0px Palatino; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This is one of my first experimental pin-curl escapades. For this particular ‘do, I used regular mousse, a blow dryer, liquid (spray) styling mousse, about 14 pin curl clips, a boar bristle brush, some hair pins for my bangs, and a bunch of hairspray to keep it all together.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Styling: This set took about 30 minutes to put up. I took fairly large sections of hair, and each section required a pin curl clip as well as a bobby pin. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span>I curled large sections because I only had 12 pin curl clips. I would recommend using more clips (so you don’t have to use bobby pins) if you want the curls to come out tighter. </div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I struggled with my bangs; there are a lot of options! In the end I used plenty of liquid styling mousse to force them to bend backward like that, creating a bit of a bouffant. </span>I curled most sections the same direction, which helps when brushing them out.</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This </span>shows the lovely array of curls when all the clips have been removed. </div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Styling: If you use lots of liquid styling mousse (as I did), the curls will be stiff and hard to disentangle. I lost a lot of hair trying to brush them out for this set, and that isn’t necessary. The key is gentleness.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Brushing: The easiest way to brush them out is to use a boar bristle brush (round or flat) and brush out one curl at a time. Unless you’re in a very humid area, your hair should hold plenty of curl even when you brush it out.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Here is the finished look. I have improved on the vintage-ness of the look since this pin curl set, but this is a good start. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Brushing: I brushed out my bangs and curled them back into position with my fingers, the brush, and used bobby pins (my hair color) to keep them in place. </span>For the rest, once I brushed out the curls, I kept brushing to encourage them all into the same position. They all folded nicely in to frame my face. I brushed the back curls under, and used hairspray to glue it all down.</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The finishing touch would be heavy eye makeup (if you have a forehead like mine) and dark lipstick. Et voila!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">More such escapades to ensue! I look forward to getting better at this.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8194704028694307019.post-43628214207955408242011-08-31T12:00:00.000-07:002012-03-14T16:56:47.125-07:00Old to you, new to me<div style="color: #212606; display: inline !important; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Palatino; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">As we wound our way down aisles named “Vienna,” “London,” and “Paris,” we found a plethora of headgear in the same family as my dear friend’s dream veil. Hats were abundant in that store, and the more we looked, the more we gawked. Hats with feathers, hats of felt, fascinators of all kinds began to garner our attention. Soon, we couldn’t help but take photos of ourselves in said hats. They were wild to us, but once on, you had to admit that they gave you a look, and it wasn’t altogether bad.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I don’t know if she ever found the French netting she was looking for (honestly, she should have just tried the internet first), but it was the beginning of a new phase of life for me. She and I spent nearly a year going to the antique mall every few weeks, and the more I saw, the more I learned. What’s valuable to collectors, what people bring in that’s really junk, and how obscenely small women were half a century ago. I’ve acquired several articles of clothing that are worth their weight in gold for the compliments I receive, and I always find something new, no matter how many times I go a-hunting.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Lesson for the day: When shopping antique, have an item (or a few) in mind that you’re looking for. Your brain will punch in the code and your eyes will almost automatically be drawn to that item in a sea of various whosits and whatsits. Case in point: my mother and I once went antiquing, and she mentioned it would be nice to have a perch for our miserably noisy and kermudgeonly cockatiel. After that, all I could see in the antique mall were birdcages, and no matter how hidden, every single one caught my eye. Let that be a lesson to you!</span></div>
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